THE gloomy ANZ job advertisement report this week and last week’s Australian Bur-eau of Statistics report that job advertisements are dramatically down are way off the beam, according to one of Australia’s top recruitment organisations.

THE new challenge for many businesses is to embrace digital broadband connectivity or perish and the big challenge for CEOs will be to recognise the opportunities and take the risk to try to exploit them.

PERTH’s Ben Hoffman was propelled from a former fruit and veg store manager to an inter-national high-tech visionary last week when a local syndicate poured almost $2 million into his Subiaco company, SignIQ.

SANFORD Limited, Perth’s on-line transaction pioneer, has signed a contract to provide its B2B product, Virtual Broker, to Tower Trust Limited, which has AUS$4.4B of assets under management and administration.